Io (2019) (original) (raw)
As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.
As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet. (less)
Director: Jonathan Helpert
Writers: Clay Jeter, Charles Spano, Will Basanta
Starring: Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie, Danny Huston, Tom Payne, Emma Fitzgerald, Justin Jamieson
Producer: Jason Michael Berman
Review by Brian Orndorf, January 24, 2019
4 / 10
Science fiction doesn�t need to be flashy, but it�s always problematic when it�s inert. It�s difficult to understand why �IO� was turned into a picture when it seems perfectly suited to the world of literature, with screenwriters Clay Jeter, Charles Spano, and Will Basanta offered a book�s worth of room to explore the dystopian future setting and themes of isolation and longing. Folded into the shape of a feature, and the material comes across flat and unexciting, with no discernable tension created between the characters as they converse about survival and the end of the world. �IO� isn�t amb ...read more...
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